It's difficult to know if that dawning horror in his chest is visible on his features; he's stunned into silence, if only for a few fleeting seconds.

"I--- I see."

What could he possibly say? The thought of eating these people, one of what he is, one of his siblings, as he is now--- how could it sit right with him? But, inversely, how could he admonish them for doing what they have to? Could he ask them to starve, to avoid having to eat their own?

His appetite doesn't hold up especially well under the weight of this revelation.